At 04:48 PM 5/14/05, Jim K wrote:
I am not an expert on debian, but could you pull the hard disk and put in it a working machine. Then you could mount it and look in the log files for error messages. How about a linux business card or tom's root boot disk to look at the log files. Then you wouldn't need to pull the hard disk.
Actually this is a newly acquired machine. I erased the hard disk and repartitioned using FeatherLinux Live CD. There's nothing yet installed on the system, so the kernels I've been speaking about are just the stock kernels that boot from the Live or Installer CD's. The 2.4 stock kernels are fine; the 2.6 stock kernels lock up the system on boot.
Looking at the message again I'm not sure whether the boot after the install is failing or the install itself is failing. If the install is failing would installing an older base version, then updating the system to the kernel you want work? Then adding addtitional packages. Jim K ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Dommasch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 1:22 PM Subject: [Eug-lug] Linux 2.6 kernel not booting on my Celeron(Mendocino) 300 Mhz machine
> The machine is a Celeron(Mendocino) 300 Mhz machine. > > I've been trying to install Debian Sarge (rc3 installer) with a 2.6 kernel, > but it locks up immediately after loading the kernel and initrd. The > monitor goes into Suspend mode. I've also tried a few Live CD's (Knoppix > 3.8.1, Kanotix-2005-02) with a 2.6 kernel and the same thing happens. > > Older versions such as Knoppix 3.7, DSL, and Feather Linux work just fine > (they use 2.4 kernel). There was a message from the Live CD's about > passing an undefined mode number, but I just pressed space to continue and > it worked. I could install Debian using the standard 2.4 kernel (boots > fine), but I'm worried that I'll be stuck when I try to upgrade to 2.6. > > The boot options I've tried for 2.6 include the following in different > combinations: atapicd, nosound, noapic, acpi=off, nofstab, noscsi, nodma, > noapm, nousb, nopcmcia, nofirewire, noagp, nomce, nodhcp, nobiospnp, > noinotify, pci=nobios, pci=bios, noaudio, noddc, nolapic, noswap, nousb2, > pnpbios=off, nowheelmouse, mem=64M, debug, no-hlt, noisapnp, ide0=none, > ide1=none, pci=off, panic=5. > > The panic=5 option should have reboot the computer after 5 seconds if there > was a kernel panic, but nothing happens. Though I can press Ctrl-Alt-Del > to reboot the computer. > > I tried using a serial console in case it was just the video that was > failing. I hooked up a serial cable to another computer and used > minicom. I used the boot options: console=ttyS0,9600n81 > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text for the Celeron. For the Debian installer, that > worked fine for the standard 2.4 kernel. But for the 2.6 kernel there were > no kernel messages whatsoever. > > I'm willing to install Debian using the 2.4 kernel and troubleshoot the 2.6 > issues later, but if any of you have any ideas that I've missed that would > be great. I'm considering removing the expansion cards one by one, > rebooting after each is removed. > > The machine is a Celeron(Mendocino) 300 Mhz machine > I can get cpuinfo and dmesg messages from the 2.4 if that would help. > > Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.10 - Release Date: 5/13/05 > >
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